And we have millions of people in the state of Illinois with medical debt that they can't pay and maybe never will pay. Probably will never pay. So we actually, starting with Cook county, the first county. Cook County, Illinois, [was] the first county in the country to implement [a] medical debt relief program. And then we took it statewide and now we've put two. We've eliminated $2 billion of people's medical debt for a million people in the state of Illinois. (11:16–11:23)
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Asserts Cook County was the first in the U.S. to implement a medical debt relief program.
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